This is not cool. All you people who have been saying there is no slippery slope, feel free to reply.

Not a happy camper with the company. I love my TiVo, but if this is the way it is going to be I may as well start looking at a computer solution.

Sorry is this is old news but I saw it for the first time this morning.

these ads first appeared about 6 months or more ago. they are not new.
Also as others asked can you please describe exactly what you had to do differently to use your DVR. Exactly how intrusive was this ad?

I find them easy to ignore, myself, since the current crop of ads have no interest for me. If it was for some new Movie I would click through to see the extended trailer

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You just need to disable your sense of shame for all humanity and click past the break

Well, I for one give a big KUDOS to Tivo for finding a way to promote clickable advertising (which helps them stay in business) and yet not have it be intrusive in any way whatsoever. Its not an ad you have to watch, skip over, or even click past. Its just there if you want to see it.

I can imagine 1000's of more intrusive advertising techniques (that Tivo has even used in the past) and are especially visible on the networks (popups) and all over the internet.

these ads first appeared about 6 months or more ago. they are not new.
Also as others asked can you please describe exactly what you had to do differently to use your DVR. Exactly how intrusive was this ad?

I find them easy to ignore, myself, since the current crop of ads have no interest for me. If it was for some new Movie I would click through to see the extended trailer

Yeah these ads are as unobtrusive as they get - no different action is needed than if they were not there.

All you people who have been saying there is no slippery slope, feel free to reply.

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"Slippery slope", more often than not, is a logical fallacy, requiring a great stretch of causation of events that in no way actually cause each other. Using a slippery slope argument is what people turn to when they don't have an actual event to point to thats unacceptable, and instead need to fear monger about what else it could (but probably won't) mean."

Does Tivo get more revenue if those ads are clicked? If so, I would click to view the ads, if not I will still continue to ignore all ads on my Tivos. I feel like doing my part to keep Tivo alive, as I have seen the other side of DVRs and it is not pretty!

These things don't bother me too much (much worse are the networks' ads that cover the program as discussed in another thread today)..

But one relatively minor thing is that these seem to add a minor delay. I *can't* just go left arrow, up arrow, enter quickly like I usually can. I'm not saying it's pausing when the ad is up.. I think it just takes longer to draw the screen so it's losing the remote input or something.